Intelligence Chairman Raised Virus Alarms Weeks Ago, Secret Recording Shows  —  Toggle more options  —  The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee warned a small group of well-connected constituents three weeks ago to prepare for dire economic and societal effects of the coronavirus …

Acting counterterrorism center head fired, according to former U.S. officials  —  The acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center was fired Wednesday night in what insiders fear is a purge by the Trump administration of career professionals at an organization set up after 9/11 …

Gov. Ron DeSantis Says Florida is Shutting Down For Spring Breakers: ‘The Party is Over’  —  Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) announced that he's putting an end to spring break revelry in his state with the coronavirus pandemic growing in the country.  —  In an interview on Thursday with Fox & Friends …

Global Level 4 Health Advisory - Do Not Travel  —  Level 4: Do Not Travel  —  The Department of State advises U.S. citizens to avoid all international travel due to the global impact of COVID-19.  In countries where commercial departure options remain available, U.S. citizens who live …

Tulsi Gabbard suspends presidential campaign, endorses Biden  —  Tulsi Gabbard announced Thursday that she will suspend her 2020 Democratic presidential campaign and endorsed Joe Biden.  —  The state of play: While she was one of the final three candidates left in the race …

A New York Doctor's Coronavirus Warning: The Sky Is Falling  —  Alarmist is not a word anyone has ever used to describe me before.  But this is different.  —  Dr. Griggs is a pediatric surgery fellow.  —  I've had hard conversations this week.  “Look me in the eye,” I said to my neighbor Karen …

Ga. lawmakers urged to self-quarantine after senator's positive coronavirus test  —  AJC AT THE GOLD DOME: CORONAVIRUS March 18, 2020  —  'I'm shaking with rage'  —  All of Georgia's state lawmakers were urged Wednesday to self-isolate themselves for weeks after a state senator who participated …

Coronavirus Ravages 7 Members of a Single Family, Killing 2  —  The matriarch of the large New Jersey family, herself sick with the virus, “doesn't realize her two oldest children have passed.”  —  Grace Fusco — mother of 11, grandmother of 27 — would sit in the same pew at church each Sunday …

Three pillars of Trump's case for reelection are collapsing all at once  — President Trump's reelection campaign was designed under the premise that the economy would be strong through November, but that's not true anymore.  — Trump also planned to make socialism a central focus of his attacks.

Evangeline Lilly won't self-quarantine, values ‘freedom’ over her life  —  Evangeline Lilly is taking a stand against self-quarantining during the coronavirus pandemic.  —  The “Ant-Man and the Wasp” star, 40, posted a photo of her “morning tea” on Instagram and said it was “business as usual” …

Trump Touts Drug That FDA Says Isn't Yet Approved for Virus  — 'It's not going to kill anybody,' Trump says at White House  — Research still examining safety, effectiveness of chloroquine  —  We're tracking the latest on the coronavirus outbreak and the global response.

Timeline: The early days of China's coronavirus outbreak and cover-up  —  Axios has compiled a timeline of the earliest weeks of the coronavirus outbreak in China, highlighting when the cover-up started and ended — and showing how, during that time, the virus already started spreading around the world, including to the United States.

Before Virus Outbreak, a Cascade of Warnings Went Unheeded  —  Government exercises, including one last year, made clear that the U.S. was not ready for a pandemic like the coronavirus.  But little was done.  —  WASHINGTON — The outbreak of the respiratory virus began in China …

Trump's China Hawk Is Trying to Commandeer the Coronavirus Stimulus and Others in the White House Are Alarmed  —  A draft executive order obtained by The Daily Beast shows that Navarro has his sights on a massive disruption of the medical-supply chain to make it more America-centric.

No, We're Not All Going to Have to Stay Home for 18 Months  —  (Bloomberg Opinion) — Remember a week and a half ago when CNBC's Rick Santelli said that “maybe we'd just be better off” if we just infected everybody with the coronavirus now?  His reasoning:  —  Then in a month …

You Cheered as He Fucked Up.  No Take Backs, Trumpists.  —  The virus doesn't follow him on Twitter.  It does what it does, and exploits time and complacency in its human hosts.  Trump gave it a six-week pass.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  The cliché about authoritarian leaders being strong …

Help, I Think I'm In Love With Andrew Cuomo???  —  My roommates moved out of my Brooklyn apartment just ahead of the pandemic, and their replacements haven't moved in yet.  (At this point, they might not move in at all.)  This means I haven't had much company in the last week …

Rep. Don Young tells Alaska seniors ‘beer virus’ fears are overblown, skips vote on COVID-19 relief  —  Alaska's lone member of the U.S. House, Rep. Don Young, told a gathering of senior citizens last week that dangers posed by the coronavirus pandemic — the “beer virus,” he called it …

CDC, the top U.S. public health agency, is sidelined during coronavirus pandemic  —  As the United States enters a critical phase in fighting the coronavirus pandemic, the country's leading public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, appears to be on the sidelines …

China Is Avoiding Blame by Trolling the World  —  The evidence of China's deliberate cover-up of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan is a matter of public record.  In suppressing information about the virus, doing little to contain it, and allowing it to spread unchecked in the crucial early days and weeks …

Trump wanted to bury Biden after the primary.  Now he can't.  —  President Donald Trump's top political advisers in recent weeks envisioned unleashing a massive advertising campaign against Joe Biden to define him for the general election before he had a chance to recover from the primary.

As layoffs skyrocket, America's unemployment safety net is underprepared to help many in need  —  Laid off workers are struggling to apply for unemployment aid as government websites crash and phone lines have hours-long waits  —  American workers are getting laid off at an unprecedented pace …

A Coronavirus Recession Could Doom Trump's Reelection Chances  —  KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE  — The coronavirus public health crisis likely will lead to an economic downturn of unknown length and severity.  — Historically, second-quarter GDP growth in the election year …

Lt. Gov. Cyrus Habib: Why I am giving up elected office and joining the Jesuits  —  Earlier today, I announced that I will not be running for re-election as Washington State's lieutenant governor and have decided to enter the Society of Jesus.  This decision follows two years of careful and prayerful discernment.

Exclusive: Amazon Confirms First Known Coronavirus Case in an American Warehouse  —  Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Queens, New York, received a text Wednesday evening that they long feared might come: “We're writing to let you know that a positive case of the coronavirus (COVID-19) was found at our facility today.”

How long will Americans be fighting the coronavirus?  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a matter of days, millions of Americans have seen their lives upended by measures to curb the spread of the new coronavirus.  —  Normally bustling streets are deserted as families hunker down in their homes.

The Daily 202: Trump's corporatist response to coronavirus shows no concern for national debt  —  A trillion here, a trillion there and soon you're talking real money.  —  The national debt has surged from $20 trillion to $23 trillion since President Trump took office …

Coronavirus live updates: Public health disaster declared in Texas for first time in 119 years  —  12:48 p.m. A Dallas County man became the fourth Texan to die from the novel coronavirus, local health officials reported.  —  The man, who lived in Richardson and was in his 60s …

The Staggering Rise in Jobless Claims This Week  —  Note: Official figures are seasonally adjusted.  This week's claims are not seasonally adjusted and represent a third of total national employment.  Source: Department of Labor, state level reporting.  —  Numbers released on Thursday …

Disinformation and blame: how America's far right is capitalizing on coronavirus  —  The pandemic, a situation in which people are panic-buying supplies, is ideal for a movement powered by fear and lies  —  The far right in America has received the coronavirus pandemic in much the same manner …

Unsanitized: Private Equity Licks Its Chops  —  Plus Medicare for All (who have coronavirus), and voting remotely in Congress.  This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for March 19, 2020.  —  Private equity targets include health care and “security.”  —  First Response

The Note: Sanders-Warren wing gets another moment, amid coronavirus crisis  —  Sander's campaign is signaling that he is clear-eyed about the road ahead.  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign is signaling that he is clear-eyed about the road ahead, with his campaign manager saying he would use …

US seeks $3 billion to boost oil producers as prices plunge  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Thursday it is seeking $3 billion from Congress to top up the country's strategic petroleum reserves, potentially propping up U.S. oil producers after crude prices crashed globally.

Pro-Trump OAN pushes wild conspiracy theory that novel coronavirus was created in a North Carolina lab  —  OAN's chief White House correspondent endorsed a conspiracy theorist who has said Anthony Fauci funded creation of the coronavirus to destroy the Trump economy